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In short - all of your ideas are on the right path.

If you’re in the US, consider a class in community college. My CC have one combined piano + music 1. The teacher will guide you to next steps too. CC is inexpensive and a teacher is better (I think) than any course you find online.

I personally went from taking Music 1 out of curiosity to taking every theory, piano, viola, percussion… that was on offer in my CC over the last 6 years. Highly addictive.

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What's Music 1? Are there any online lectures available?

If you have a BS/BA (and maybe even without), many US universities also allow you to enroll as a non-degree seeking student. You may be the last to enroll, which can make popular classes hard to attend, but it can work. Of course, you also still have the stupidly high US tuition costs which are generally much lower at CCs (if not free, state-dependent).

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